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Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL (/ m ə n t ˈ ɡ ʌ m ər i ... ˈ æ l ə m eɪ n / ; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed " Monty ", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War , the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War .
Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery with his only son David. Montgomery was the only child of Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, a senior military commander in the Second World War, and his wife Elizabeth Carver, née Hobart. [2] [3] He had two older half brothers from his mother's previous marriage, John and Dick ...
Field marshal insignia. HH Abbas I Hilmi Pasha (1813–1854) HH Ibrahim Pasha (1789–1848) Yahya Mansur Yeghen (1837–1913) Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850–1916) 20 December 1914 - HH Sultan Hussein Kamel (1853–1917) HM King Fuad I (1868–1936) 'Aziz 'Ali al-Misri (1879–1965) HM King Farouk (1920–1965) 1949 - HM King Abdullah I of ...
The viscountcy was created in 1946 for the military commander Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, [1] commemorating his crucial victory in the Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October–3 November 1942) (named after a minor railway halt marking the allied defence line), which sealed the fate of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps.
The GOC XXX Corps, Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks is made a Commander of Order of the Bath and receives the Distinguished Service Order from George VI during an investiture at the headquarters of the commander of the 21st Army Group, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, 15 October 1944. Field Marshal Montgomery is in foreground.
Both museums were opened by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery on 2 August 1961. [1] The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum was reopened by his son, David Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein , in 2001 following a major refurbishment with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund .
Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army.He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, during the Second World War, and was promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1944.
Various reasons were put forward for the speedy conclusion of the operation, including the suggestion that James was seen in Gibraltar smoking and drunk (the real Montgomery was a non-smoking teetotaler), though the most likely explanation is the one put forward by Dennis Wheatley, who was part of the British deception efforts during the war.